(A) Purpose. This zone district is designed to accommodate a wide variety of business activities in addition to mixed-use residential, office businesses and the municipal center. The BD zone will serve as the primary business core of the town and be pedestrian-oriented, resulting in the provision of adequate space for the development of attractive, centralized, people-oriented environments where retail enterprises will provide sales and services responding to the needs of the town, tourists and the surrounding agricultural community.
(B) Uses-by-right. Uses-by-right include the following:
(1) Retail and business use such as:
(a) Attorney-at-law/legal services;
(b) Antique shops
(c) Artist supply stores;
(d) Auto and truck parts store;
(e) Banks (drive-in facilities are allowed);
(f) Barber and beauty shops;
(g) Book and stationery stores;
(h) Clothing stores;
(I) Communication facilities up to the height limit;
(j) Copy centers;
(k) CPA/bookkeeping services;
(l) Craft stores;
(m) Department stores;
(n) Drug stores;
(o) Dry cleaning and dying establishments;
(p) Dry goods and variety stores;
(q) Electrical and household appliance stores;
(r) Farm equipment sales and repair shops;
(s) Florists;
(t) Furniture stores;
(u) Gift shops;
(v) Grocery stores;
(w) Hardware stores;
(x) Insurance agencies;
(y) Jewelry stores;
(z) Laundromats;
(aa) Libraries;
(bb) Medical and dental clinics;
(cc) Membership clubs, public or private;
(dd) Mortuaries and funeral homes;
(ee) Music, radio, television and video stores;
(ff) Newspaper publications;
(gg) Newsstands;
(hh) Office supply stores;
(ii) Offices for business, professional and governmental activities;
(jj) Optometrist shops;
(kk) Parking lots for customers and employee parking (off-premises lots);
(ll) Package liquor stores;
(mm) Paint stores;
(nn) Pet shops;
(oo) Photographic studios, equipment and supply stores;
(pp) Post offices;
(qq) Printers;
(rr) Public utility collection offices;
(ss) Radio and TV stations and other communication businesses;
(tt) Realty/land offices;
(uu) Restaurants and other eating and drinking establishments without drive-in facilities;
(vv) Senior centers;
(ww) Shoe stores;
(xx) Sporting goods and athletic equipment stores;
(yy) Theaters (indoors);
(zz) Toy stores;
(aaa) Travel agencies;
(bbb) Video rentals; and
(ccc) Other similar retail establishments not of an industrial or wholesale nature.
(2) Utility service facilities;
(3) Accessory buildings and uses; and
(4) Recreational vehicle storage buildings.
(C) Conditional uses. Conditional uses include the following:
(1) Auto and truck repair shops;
(2) Bed and breakfast homes;
(3) Car dealerships;
(4) Health club/gym;
(5) Restaurants with drive-in facilities;
(6) Utility service facilities where height limits are exceeded; and
(7) Cabinet, wood working or carpentry shops.
(D) Special review uses. Special review uses include the following:
(1) Builders’ supply and lumber yards;
(2) Used car dealers;
(3) Community centers;
(4) Convalescent homes, and other extended care facilities;
(5) Drive-in restaurants;
(6) Frozen food lockers;
(7) Gasoline stations;
(8) Government buildings, police station or fire station;
(9) Hospitals and nursing homes;
(10) Hotels and motels;
(11) Lounges or clubs;
(12) Multiple family dwellings;
(13) Off-street automobile parking lots;
(14) Public transportation terminals;
(15) Major facilities of a public utility, as defined in this chapter;
(16) Recreational vehicle storage yards;
(17) Rooming and boarding houses;
(18) Railroad facilities;
(19) Shopping centers;
(20) Single-family dwelling within a business establishment for care taking purposes;
(21) Warehouses;
(22) Water tanks, water and sewer treatment facilities and regulator stations;
(23) Communication facilities where height limits are exceeded;
(24) Recycling centers;
(25) All uses-by-right included in the R-1 District;
(26) Use of portable Conex boxes or other portable storage containers; and
(27) Churches and church schools.
(Ord. 2-98, passed 4-22-1998; Ord. 20-2016, passed 10-26-2016; Ord. 05-2021, passed 2-24-2021) Penalty, see § 153.999